BRIEF ON IRAN Representative Office of The National Council of Resistance of Iran No. 356 Monday, February 26, 1996 3421 M Street NW #1032, Washington, DC 20007 Anti-Tehran Rally in Protest of Assassination of Two Resistance Activists in Turkey, Associated Press, February 24 WASHINGTON - Chanting, drum-beating Iranian exiles and Iranian-Americans on Saturday demanded closure of Iran's government missions at the United Nations and in Turkey, where two anti-Tehran activists were found dead the past week. "Terrorist mullahs, out of the U.N. ... down with mullah terrorism in Turkey," demonstrators chanted in English and Persian at a downtown rally in memory of two fallen workers of the Iranian resistance, Zahra Rajabi and Abdol-Ali Moradi. The Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran and its U.S. representatives have charged the two were victims of "cowardly assassinations" in Istanbul by terrorists working for the Iranian Islamic fundamentalist government in Tehran.... The council said demonstrations were also staged Friday and Saturday in London; Sydney; The Hague, Netherlands; Ottawa and Vancouver, Canada; Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden; Oslo; Bonn; Geneva; Rome and Los Angeles. At Vancouver, the demonstrators sent a resolution to Prof. Maurice D. Copithorne, Canadian special representative on Iran for the U.N. Human Rights Commission, seeking inclusion of the latest killings in his report. Mrs. Rajabi, who was 39, was extolled as a martyr who for 20 years struggled against two Iranian dictatorships, that of the late shah and the revolutionary regime that overthrew it in 1979. She was in Turkey on a mission to help Iranian refugees. Moradi, a dissident activist living in Turkey, and his wife were accompanying her, the council said. A speaker at the Washington rally, Muslim- Eskandar Filabi, predicted that many Iranians would resist the government's call to participate in March elections. Filabi, who wrestled for Iran in numerous international competitions including the Mexico City, Munich and Montreal Olympics, has lived in the United States since 1982. Exiled Iranians Stage Protest In Germany, Reuters, February 24 BONN, Germany - Hundreds of exiled Iranian dissidents rallied in Germany Saturday to accuse Tehran's agents of killing an opposition activist and one of his sympathizers in Istanbul this week. The protest in Bonn, organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, urged officials to close down all Iranian diplomatic offices in Germany and in Turkey. Organizers said the rally was one of 14 protests across Europe and North America that drew thousands of demonstrators.... Tehran-Backed Hamas Commits Bloody Acts of Terrorism, Reuters, Feb. 25 RAMALLAH, West Bank - The twin bombings that shook Israel on Sunday shattered an undeclared truce by Islamic militants and signaled growing frustration with what they see as a fruitless dialogue with the PLO. Guerrillas from the Hamas movement struck with a vengeance in Jerusalem and the southern city of Ashkelon, killing 25 people -- the highest one-day toll since Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization reached a self-rule deal in 1993.... [On Thursday, Agence France Presse reported that Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres stated that Iran had been pressing Hamas to attack Israel. [Speaking to reporters, Peres announced that "Iran is financing purchase of weapons for Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizbollah."] Bahrain-Unrest, Associated Press, February 24 MANAMA, Bahrain - An explosion near a key U.S. Navy base in the Persian Gulf wrecked the car of a top Arab newspaper editor Saturday, raising tensions in a country hit by weeks of unrest.... The newspaper building is only 200 yards from the U.S. Navy base at Juffair, south of the capital, the biggest navy facility in the region.... The ruling family, which follows the mainstream Sunni sect of Islam, calls the protesters "rioters, saboteurs and arsonists" and blames overwhelmingly Shiite Iran for stirring the unrest....